These family support services are intended to be individualized to the needs of the family being served and serve as a wraparound approach to help family units function optimally.
Caregiver and child support services are intended to provide guidance, skills, and techniques to help rebalance and restore the family system. These services will provide the family with strategies, techniques, and education to enhance interpersonal and relational skills and increase support for parents/caregivers and children.
Who are these services meant to support?
These services are appropriate for family dynamics that are struggling due to social, emotional, behavioral, and/or mental health challenges.
These Services Can Be Utilized By:
Parents, guardians, and foster parents
Individual families seeking additional support
Community agencies looking for holistic and comprehensive resources for clients
County organizations who desire a wraparound approach to care and may be helping families navigate environmental transitions
Mental Health Providers working with families
Please contact us to determine level of fit and direction of services recommended.
Be. is also a provider for Children’s Long-Term Support Waiver Program (CLTS) and IRIS. Please get in touch with us if this applies.
How we can help
Consultation and education serve as a vital initial step to the health and healing process. Initial consultation with experienced providers allows for root cause analysis and implementation of diverse strategies that target specific individualized needs. This process will ensure we avoid approaching clients with a ‘one size fits all’ model.
Education will serve as a continued piece throughout the healing process by helping clients understand concerns from different perspectives, allowing for the creation of proactive strategies and new patterns to emerge. Education also offers clients and providers new information and language that empowers and can bring understanding and alignment for all.
Community resources and additional support systems are important to a collective and collaborative approach. This service will help families identify and obtain needed resources, navigate the complex mental health and complementary/alternative service systems that serve youth, and offer auxiliary support to families.
Examples of this service include providing support to bridge and enhance communication and help families work effectively with the systems that serve them: schools, health care providers, adjunct treatment services, mental health providers, and more.
We can serve as an intermediate to help restore family balance and avoid more intensive approaches and interventions. By identifying problem areas, using a strengths based approach, and implementing holistic care to health and healing, we can collaboratively restore and rebuild a healthy family unit
When deemed appropriate, safety assessments may be conducted and plans may be created/implemented to help families identify triggers; redefine negative interaction and relational patterns that lead to behavioral escalations; rebuild and refine coping strategies, techniques, and skills that will support a safe environment; and create a new roadmap to promote and build a healthy environment for all family members to exist in.
Further, when deemed appropriate safety assessments may be conducted and plans may be created/implemented to help families identify triggers, redefine negative interaction and relational patterns that lead to behavioral escalations, rebuild and refine coping strategies, techniques, and skills that will support a safe environment, and create a new roadmap to promote and build a healthy environment for all family members to exist in.
How the Family System Support Process Works
Building a Relationship
Providers begin by building a relationship with client in the home that feels most nurturing and safe to ensure solid establishment of connection, safety, trust, and rapport with provider
2. Elevating the Family
Coinciding this process provider works alongside family of origin to educate, build skills, and employ techniques to re-establish healthy relational interactions with client
3. Implementation & Review
Provider begins working in conjunction with child and family in home of origin to continue building skills, enhance and increase time spent at home, support healthy interactions, and enable the child to re-integrate and transition smoothly
Re-unification in a safe and healthy manner is emphasized to avoid needing or returning a higher level of care.
Be. Family System Support Services are meant to:
Help parents and families avoid home removal and associated transitions in to CHIPS or JIPS petitions, foster care, or more intensive services
Support healthy family systems and dynamics, not intended to diagnosis or treat the family
Provide referrals to and help families navigate counseling or other mental health services if appropriate
Supply educational information so families can better understand, relate to, and participate in the systems serving their children
Help families identify and get their needs met
Provide emotional support and guidance as families navigate complex concerns and systems
Identify unhealthy relational patterns and work together to remap healthy ones
Provide skills and the context to nurture and enhance positive and healing interactions between family members
Teach families and children ways to self-advocate, be assertive, communicate needs, and cope in effective manners
Help families identify strategies and learn techniques that they can use in their homes to reduce conflict and encourage prosocial behavior and interactions
Work collectively to find ways to support healthy sibling dynamics and interaction to further develop and strengthen the family unit.
Help families identify and implement strategies to develop collaborative working relationships with the systems that serve them
Act as an objective liaison and collaborator between families, schools, case managers and additional support and service providers
Identify and advocate for additional supports, resources, and services that will help a child and family thrive
Ensure that academic approaches are effective and appropriate
Be a first line of contact to ensure proper support is obtained in times of high conflict and stress
Offer ongoing hope and encouragement to the family and child
Provide opportunities for activities, techniques, and exercise that enhance self regulation, bonding and connection, and relational safety
Monitor progress of clients
Help empower clients and families to identify and remove barriers allowing for growth and transformation
Help establish safe and healthy boundaries and interactions between parent and child in and out of home. Possible crisis situations may require additional interventions from additional providers.
Getting Started
An initial intake and evaluation are required
An initial 75-to-90-minute Family Intake Session will take place at Be. or in your home with a Be. provider. Depending on the nature of each family’s concerns and needs, two providers may attend this intake. This is to determine the best level of support and direction of services unique to your family. Dr. Carey Sorenson will provide ongoing consultation, collaboration, and coordination of services with providers and your family to ensure a comprehensive and holistic approach is achieved that is specific to your needs.